Optimization for structural crashworthiness and energy absorption has become an important
topic of research attributable to its proven benefits to public safety and social economy. This …

For better crashworthiness performance, vehicles must protect its occupants by maintaining
structural integrity and converting the large amount of kinetic energy into other forms of …

The response surface methodology (RSM), which typically uses quadratic polynomials, is
predominantly used for metamodeling in crashworthiness optimization because of the high …

Although deterministic optimization has to a considerable extent been successfully applied
in various crashworthiness designs to improve passenger safety and reduce vehicle cost …

New functional requirements stimulate a rapid development of novel structural members.
This paper presents a crashworthiness design of the regular hexagonal thin-walled columns …

Plastic deformation of structures absorbs substantial kinetic energy when impact occurs. For
this reason, energy-absorbing components have been extensively used in the structural …

The widespread availability of affordable high-performance personal computers and
commercial software has prompted the integration of structural analyses with numerical …

In the present study, two nonlinear mathematical modeling approaches, namely modified
response surface method (MRSM) and multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) were …

In the paper an algorithm for design reliability improvement is proposed. Its key part consists
in the computation of the correlations between constraint functions and design variables …

In automotive industry, crashworthiness design is of special interest to ensure passengers
safety and reduce vehicle costs. Thin-walled beams are the main energy absorbing …